Hoover Institution

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The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace (formerly the Hoover Institute and Library on War, Revolution, and Peace), commonly known as the Hoover Institution, is an American public policy think tank which promotes personal and economic liberty, free enterprise, and limited government. While the institution is officially a unit of Stanford University, it maintains an independent board of overseers and relies on its own income and donations. It is widely described as conservative, although its directors have contested the idea that it is partisan. The institution began in 1919 as a library founded by Stanford alumnus Herbert Hoover prior to his presidency in order to house his archives gathered during World War I. The well-known Hoover Tower was built to house the archives, then known as the Hoover War Collection (now the Hoover Institution Library and Archives), and contained material related to World War I, World War II, and other global events. The collection was renamed and...

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